Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

There is no more final end than death

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

Adversities test whether we really can live for our dreams.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

We spend too much time hiding illness.

Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw, had two big horns and a wooly jaw.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.